Will Someone Pay ME to Quit My Job, Too?

Where to start today? How about at today's top link, which takes you to the blog of Jason Kottke, who's quitting his real job to do blogging/web stuff full-time...and is asking for everyone else to donate to his cause to make it financially viable. (Hint Hint, Wink Wink: BlogPulse's address is available on the Intelliseek web site in case anyone cares to "donate" to my "cause").

Also quitting is Korn's rocker guitarist Brian "Head" Welch, who has found religion and is leaving the rock scene to pursue it. He helped co-found the band in the early 1980s.

Stirring up the blogosphere this week is journalist Ted Rall, who's obviously not making any blogger friends for describing what he feels is happening in the land of blogging. Everyone's titlted to an opinion, right?

And the folks at Apple Computers are getting more attention with their 6 GB iPod Mini and 30-60 GB version of iPod Photo. Both rank among today's top 5 key phrases.

On the legal front, attention is focused on two difficult issues: the rights of private developers to use eminent domain laws for a private development (heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week, and isn't eminent domain supposed to be for "public use" projects?) and the ongoing Florida saga of Terry Schiavo, whose husband has tried for years to be able to remove the feeding tube from the comatose woman.

And the winner is....well, the winners are many in the 2004 Koufax blog awards. Other techie winners are singled out by Mobile PC's Top 100 Gadgets of All Time." (Without reading the list first, I was preparing a joke about the incredulous absence of Ron Popeil and Ronco products....until I actually READ the list and found the Popeil Pocket Fisherman at No. 92 and the Ronco Inside-the-egg Scrambler at 84. Egg on my face). The No. 1 Gadget? Apple's 1991 Powerbook.

BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY:Is it spring yet? Almost, given that baseball's spring training camps have opened and March Madness buzz is building. So which spring sports are foremost on the minds of bloggers? Leave it to soccer.